Coleoptera. 12S 



characters : — Head speckled above with a number of small glabrous 

 brown spots, each of which surrounds a puncture. Pubescence of 

 elytra ashy white in colour at base, yellowish grey over the rest of 

 their surface ; each elytron with two snow-white spots — one under 

 the shoulder, similar to that in bi/obus, the other, which is very 

 small, and siirrounded with a naked brownish-testaceous border, 

 being placed on the disk beyond the middle. The two snow-white 

 spots, which in 0. bilobus are present on the disk near the base, 

 are in the new species wanting, their place being taken by two 

 glabrous spots, not very regular in outline, and therefore, possibly,. 

 due to accidental rubbing. 



One male specimen, taken in the north part of the island. 



84. Pterolophia perplexa, (iahan. (PI. XI, Fig. 5.) 



Praonetha perplcxa, Galiau : P.Z.S., 1888, p. o41. 



85. Prosoplus banksi. Fab. 



Two specimens of this species were taken at Flying Fish Cove. 

 I have already recorded the species from Christmas Island under 

 the name of Micracantha. 



86. Apomecyna nigritarsis, Gahan, sp.n. 



Pube fulvcscente sat dense obtccta ; tarsis et antennarum 

 articulis septcm ultimis nigris ; prothorace immaculato ; elytris^ 

 albo-maculatis, maculis in seriebus obliquis tribus vel quatuor 

 ordinatis, spatiis inter series macularum plus minusvo fusco-variis ; 

 apicibus elytrorum fortiter obliquis et paullo emarginatis. 



Long. 8-9*5, lat. 2-25-2-5mm. 



Covered with a dense yellowish-tawny pubescence. Head and 

 prothorax without spots, and rather thickly punctured ; antenna^ 

 with the last seven joints and the apex of the fourth joint black ; 

 these seven joints together not longer than the third and fourth 

 taken together. Elytra with white spots arranged in three or four 

 oblique rows on each side, the first row consisting of two or three 

 spots, the second of four, the third of three, and the fourth, which 

 is sometimes wanting, made up of two or three distinct spots ; 

 between the third and fourth rows is a single white spot placed 

 near the lateral margin ; the interspaces on the elytra between the 

 rows of spots are rather strongly punctured, and more or less 

 mottled with dark brown ; the apices of the elytra are strongly 

 oblique and slightly emarginate. Tarsi and extreme tip of the 

 tibiae black, with a faint grey pubescence ; the rest of the legs 

 covered like the under-side of the body with a yellowish-tawny 

 pubescence. 



